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trade in place of the older trade that was being displaced. A 

 grant has been made towards the erection and maintenance of an 

 experimental factory in connection with the Stoke School of 

 Pottery, this research institution to be managed by a Joint 

 Research Committee of the manufacturers and the governors* of 

 the Stoke School, and part of the cost being guaranteed locally. 



That is one example of a useful piece of constructive work. 

 You will observe that the firms concerned have come together 

 and are joining in this common research work, and you will 

 further observe that the object of the research is not simply to 

 attempt to copy the foreign article but to learn how to make an 

 article from home materials that will satisfy the public taste. 



Another industry which has suffered heavily from foreign 

 competition is the silk industry. Certain leaders in that industry 

 saw that help towards reseai'ch work might get them out of their 

 difhculties. It was suggested to them that the firms engaged in 

 the industry should form some association for the purposes of 

 research, and in that way it would be possible to help them. 

 The result has been that the Silk Association, formerly a body 

 merely for settling prices, has formed a Research Committee, a 

 plan. of work has been discussed and settled, and research work 

 on some of the problems has already started. These are two 

 examples of one way of dealing with the problem of Industrial 

 Research. As another example of a somewhat different method, 

 and illustrating the way in which the manufacturer and the 

 University may be brought together, we may consider what has 

 been done in the case of the glass manufacturers of the Sheffield 

 district. They thought that the University of Sheffield could 

 help them, and the University was quite ready to try. This 

 position of affairs gave the Advisory Council a welcome oppor- 

 tunity of arranging a scheme that would not only meet the 

 requirements of the Sheffield people, but would be ready for 

 adoption in the case of any other University or Technical 

 College and an Industry in its neighbourhood. The scheme is a 

 simple one. The University appoints certain representatives, 



